{"id":29902,"date":"2012-05-10T11:42:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T15:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29902"},"modified":"2012-05-10T11:42:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T15:42:53","slug":"on-whose-behalf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29902","title":{"rendered":"On whose behalf?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read this earlier today, but i wanted to think about it for a bit, but the Weekly Standard<\/a> quoted the president during an interview with ABC yesterday, which the media tells me to think was a “watershed moment” in American history when the President decided to come out of the closet and declare that, suddenly he’s all for gay marriage, after saying since before the 2008 election that he wasn’t so much. But, it’s the way he framed his sashay out of the closet that sticks in my craw. here, you read it;<\/p>\n

\u201cI have to tell you that over the course of several years as I talked to friends and family and neighbors, when I think about members of my own staff who are in incredibly committed monogamous relationships, same-sex relationships, who are raising kids together; when I think about those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf and yet feel constrained, even now that \u2018don’t ask, don’t tell\u2019 is gone, because they are not able to commit themselves in a marriage, at a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same sex couples should be able to get married.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, why would he want to drag the troops into a discussion that has little to do with them? How many gays are the service who want to marry some-damn-body? There certainly aren’t legions of them, but it’s like the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was supposed to solve our non-existent manpower problems in the military, they need victims and bloody shirts to wave in our faces. Yeah, someone will trot out a few as examples, but seriously, how many can there really be? 10? 20? Even a hundred would be statistically insignificant.<\/p>\n

But let’s get to the most egregious part of that quote; “…those soldiers or airmen or marines or sailors who are out there fighting on my behalf….” I remember that my oath of enlistment said something about defending the Constitution, not any particular politician, and certainly not the President. This isn’t a “…for King and Country” kind of nation. Now I swore that I would follow the orders of my superiors, but there was nothing in the oath about fighting on anyone’s behalf. Unless he considers their salaries a “commutation fee” for them to fight in his place. <\/p>\n

But, in my opinion, it was just a way for him to remind the country that he’s commander-in-chief and to stand on the broad shoulders of our fighting forces to campaign for office. I’m pretty sure they don’t like being dragged into this campaign, whether it’s by Obama or Ron Paul, especially when it’s on the gay marriage question. Just like abortion in this country, the Defense of Marriage Act is law, whether you agree with it or not, and unless they want to mount a campaign in Congress to change the law, it doesn’t really matter what the President thinks about it. But the last thing the President and Commander-in-Chief should be doing is dragging the troops into the discussion to illustrate an ill-considered point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read this earlier today, but i wanted to think about it for a bit, but … On whose behalf?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}